From beneficiaries to architects of their own future.

The RFLD Strategic Plan 2023–2028 codifies what thirteen years of feminist organising has taught us: that systemic change requires simultaneous work at multiple levels — legislative, institutional, community, and individual — and that none of these can be pursued in isolation.

The plan rests on four strategic objectives that organise our theory of change: rights and representation, civil liberties and health rights, economic and climate justice, and governance and civic participation. Each objective is delivered through six integrated fields of intervention — SRHR, civic space, economic justice and climate, governance, peace and security, and ending FGM and child marriage.

Most importantly, this plan is operational, not aspirational. It maps to real programmes (PAWELE, BRAVE, Climate Justice, Health in Francophone Africa, Ending FGM), a real re-granting vehicle (the WAFF Fund), real data infrastructure (the DƆNÙESÈ Data Center), and real institutional partnerships (GIZ/BMZ SEA-T, Sida, Packard, AmplifyChange, FJS, Expertise France).

"The feminist movement in Africa is not short of ideas. It is short of infrastructure. This plan is how we build it."